Comments on: CSD Advisory Committee Projects Future Enrollment Increases, Makes Recommendations to Board

By: nola

nola — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:07:29 +0000

nelliebelle1197,
“Space planning is not the administrations strong point.” Case in point:
Recommendation 2B: Begin addition to FAVE to accommodate system wide growth.
Fifth Avenue opened this year, August of 2011. After six months of use we are told the facility is too small and needs to be enlarged; how much money will this cost? During the architectural planning phase of Fifth Avenue many people expressed their concerns about the size of the proposed building and site chosen for the Academy. At that time Individuals clearly stated that FAVE would be at capacity this year or next.

By: Jane

Jane — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:04:10 +0000

By: At Home in Decatur

At Home in Decatur — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:22:43 +0000

“We don’t want to solve our problems by making our schools undesirable.” I wish CSD would do exit surveys of families who leave the school system, especially those who leave for private school or move specifically for a different school system. The most important information would be temporal trends because there’s always going to be a certain proportion of families who decide to switch to private school from public school. But an increase or decrease in percentage would be useful information that should be explored. Actually, even if the percentage was steady, the school system would get useful information about customer satisfaction, student needs, gifted services, special needs services, art and music opportunities, athletics, etc.. It might also be useful to have a survey of folks who enter the school system after having used private schools. I can think of several families doing that lately and I think finances played a minor role in most of their decisions.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:20:15 +0000

wow I did not hear that. Certainly somewhat unsettling to not know where your kids would go to school.

Is there any chance that APS will bow to pressure and keep things the way they are currently (relatively speaking, at least)?

By: Thomas in CSD

Thomas in CSD — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:43:13 +0000

*All* tuition applications will be processed immediately for acceptance, denial, or potential. The potential group will be notified in July and only will be 1st grade and Kindergarten. All other grade levels will know in the spring. Sorry if that was not clear. https://eboard.eboardsolutions.com/Meetings/Attachment.aspx?S=4052&AID=348787&MID=22747
slide 14.

Best,
Thomas in CSD